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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
The CoIoneI's Strategy.

Col Dick Wintersmith was trying to
write letter in u room where Dan Voor-
hees, Mr.. Beverly Tucker and two or
three Others were sitting. These three
gentlemen formed conspiracy to worry
him and prevent his writing. Every
time he would put pen to paper one or
the other would ask him a question. At
last old Judge Key came in, and the Col
onel greeted him very cordially.
Judge, said the Colonel, 81 wish you
would sit down and tell US about your
trip to Europe"
''Did 1 never tell you about my life in
Europel" said the Judge with some sur
prise.
mo, never. These gentlemen want to
hear il. .
Inc Judge turned TO hang up his coat
and hat, and the Voorhees, party made for
the door. When he was ready to take
his seat no one was present but Col. Win
tersmith.
"why, where are those gentlemenT'
asked the Judge
.They are gone, sir, said Col. Dick;
'they wanted to insult you by leaving.
1t is an outrage. would seek satisfac-
ton"
The Judge, being of fiery nature, put
on his ovcrcoat at once and started in hot
chase after the offenders. As soon as he
got out of the door Col Wintersmith
quietly locked it and wrote his letters.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Cleaning a nlack Dress.

4 black dress, whose owner had worn
it on fishing excursion in row boat,
and was caught in a severe thunder
shower while out on the water, hung
month after month an eyesore, and, as
she supposed, past cleaning without
ripping. As the time rolled around that
she might need it agilin for another ex-
cursion, she tried an experiment, and put
the shirt and oversllirt, which were In
one binding, into large tubful of clear
cold water. The basque did not need 1t.
After soaking awhile 1t was brushed
thoroughly, especially the platings, with
cast-off weavers' brushes, and hung-out on
a picket fence by the binding, dripping,
not having been wrung or the water
even squeezed out The folds and plaits
were brushed in place as well as possible
as it hung, and it being of stiff goods,
and the day clear and warm, it was soon
dry and ready to bring in. 1t needed no
ironing except in a few wrinkled spots.
which she damped and pressed, and she
felt so well satisfied with it that it has
been worn afternoons, sweet and clean
Cultirdt0r.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
A Novel Cavalry Review.

General Boulanger, says the 81. Jams's
Gazette. has Just been holding a cavalry
review of a novel kind A score of cor
porals from the Joinville training school
went through their evolutions before him
mounted on magnificent velocipedes.
The composition Of the little troop resem-
bled that of the regular mounted force of
the country, the bicyclists representing
the light. the tricyclists the heavy cavalry.
The French War Minister has decided TO
have certain proportion of the men in
the infantry regiments trained to the use
of the veIocipede, the utility of these ma
chimes for the transmission Of orders and
the interchange of communications be
tween the different divisions of 6n army
having been satisfactorily established in
practice. Their employment will, for one
thing. leave all the horses Of the force
available for the work in which their ser
vices are indispensable. The bicycle has
been found to give better results on the
whole than the tricycle., and 1t Is Proba-
BILE that some form of the two-wheeled
machine will be deinitively adopted for
general use
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
Her Husband Fought in 1916.

There are scarcely a dozen pensioners
of the war of the Revolution, and one Of
this small number lives in Harrisburg,
Penn, SAYS correspondent of the New
York World. Her is Elizabeth Betz,
and she is almost ninety years of age. She
has no relative living, but the people in
the vicinity of her home give her kindly
attention. Her husband, Peter Betz, was
a drummer boy in the Revolutionary war
and served five years. He was married
twice. and at the age of sixty-seyen
welded Mrs. Betz, who was then only
twenty-five. His dying request was that
his wife should not marry again, and she
has complied with it.
The old lady has a remarkably reten-
tive memory, and she is fond of telling
stories of war times. One day, she says,
her husband was called before Gen.
Washington, charged with stealing geese.
After the Father of his Country" had
reprimanded the culprit, he said: "Ay
boy, you may steal geese if you so desire,
but don't let me flLi it OUT
"And Washington would help eat the
geese, too, - says the old woman, every
time she tells the tale.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
Easter island Images.

Lieut.. Stone, who secured the prehis-
toric stone image from Easter Island, in
the Pacific Ocean, for the Smithsonian
Institution, while attached to the No
hican, stated to a Star reporter that the
image, which is now on its way here, is
about eight feet high, four feet wide and
three feet thick. Il is roughly carved OF
hewed. A head of another image was
also secured, and some of the officers OBJ
tanned by purchase other curiosities,
which could not be obtained elsewhere.
which the Smithsonian will probably take
of their hands. The images, he said, are
scattered all over the island, although
many Of them have been thrown from their
pedestals and broken. 1t was customary
for the natives to erect them over the
cemeteries. They would bury their dead
in cells, with stone walls on three sides.
and with an inclined wall of earth at the
rear. They would cover over the burial
cells and form top of fagstones to the
platform, on which would be placed from
three TO a dozen images overlooking the
sea, according to the size Of the platform.
The images were made from conglomerate
stone in the side of a crat II, and hewn
with stone axes, and by cut ing through
single stratum the image could be easily
separated from the next stratum, and then
moved on an incline and erected. The
images are Of different sizes, the largest
one being about seventy feet long, but
this was never removed, and lies in its
bed in the side OF the crater, where the
work was commenced. The statue Sc
cured by the Mohican was found about
two miles from the shore 1t took about
eighty men two days to bring it down on
rollers Lieut.. Stone and the present
inhabitants know nothing about the
images CT the fresco decorations OF the
houses, but they intuitively bury their
dead N close proximity 10 these statues.
- Warrington sfar,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
Hard TO Construe.

'Iook here" said the brakeman,
stirring up the sleeping passenger, VINO
was DOING the miles away while a for
bidding looking dog slumbered quietly at
his feet. Look here, that dog can't
ride in this car"
II know he can't, " muttered the pas
senger, ''but he does, doesn't hel"
''But he can'tride any longer, shouted
the brakeman.
"Course mott said the passenger,
half opening his eyes in sleepy interest,
'full-grown dog; never be any longer
than he is now"
''But he can't ride any more, said the
brakeman, showing signs of irritation.
mo" replied the passenger, opening
his eyes wide, ''he seems to be getting
all the ride the old train can give him
now
"But," roared the brakeman, che
won't ride another mile. "
Cant bet on that, . said The passenger;
doing away again; queer dog; owned
him six wears. and never can tell one
minute what he will or won't do the
next
BuL ne Hustu lAAe 10 -~~-Ni
the brakeman. -,
"iCourse he mustn't, )" sleepily said the
Messenger. "Wife says every day he
mustn't come into the house, and he just
lives in it."
"weli, BY thunderl" roared the brake
man, '.he's got to get out OF herel"
ssThat's what book-keeper says at the
.afEics !, YEARLY groaned the sleepy pas
p and he sleeps under the desk
a Re isn't scratching for rats under
'y?7safe and in the waste-basket."
Then the brakeman got mad and went
tn the conductor. "There's a man in
here got dog with him." he said, ''and
/ can't make him bulge out of the car
with it."
aoh. that sleepy old duffer in the
Pennsylvania coachl" said the conductor.
II tried him myself and he wore out the
imperative mood of all the verbs in the
Grammar on me before got mad enough
70 bounce him, and then he went to
sleep. Let him alone. He gets off at
the next station, and I'm going to run
him by about seventy miles. "-Burdette,
IN Ameriean TraVeler.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13

Frank saw the boat rise boldly on the
top Of a breaking wave; her DOW disap-
peared under a cataract Of foam, then
rose again. It was evidently easier TO
come in than 90 out; but it was danger
ons enough still, all the more as behind
them was the clumsy hulk for which
they seemed TO have venture'i so much.
The Star shook and trembled under the
woman's powerful strokes, but she passed
in safety through the second line Of
breakers, and once more rode in peace
Slowly now and quietly The rowers
came toward the shore. When the Star
was near enough. Frank rushet into the
water, and, with Robs aid, soon had
beached her above the flow Of the waves.
Rob leaped out, and the woman, who
had been for a moment or sc STOPPING
over the bottom of the boat, rose to her
feet with large bundle in her arms.
As she stepped ashore Franks aston
ished eyes beheld the bundle--whatl a
sleeping babyl
Rob screamed with laughter at the
sight Of Franks bewildered face.
That is what she was 50 crazy about
not her boat,'
.sYes.n said Rob. ''the child was in
it. She must have left it loosely fas-
tened while she went shrimping, and
child and boat were carried out by this
wind and couldn't make her out at all,
for did not dream of this, you know,
and when We got quite up to 1t, there in
the bottom was the baby, broad awake,
and it looked up and laughed when itsaw
its mother
so Rob, Rob, how glad am that you
VENT You have saved its life, l know
you have!n
Impetuous Frank gave his brother q,
hearty hug, while the smiling mothe; /
looked as if she would like to give hiE
another Youths Companion. ID
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
Catching the Octonux

The United States Fish Commission
print in one Of their recent bulletins IN
excellent report by Mrs. Emma Aetcalf
beckley, Curator of the Elawaiiau M
nonai Museum, on Hawaiian Fisb;no
implements and Methods a. Fisb;no-S
Inc writer gives some curious details
ABOUT octopus fishing. The smaller kinds
OF octopus, which live in shallow wats1.
are caught by women. who do their WORK
m.sn remarkable skill They can tell
miether an octopus is in a hole whoss
entsAnce Is no larger than a silver dollar.
Sl h1 Plunging their spears in, they invaria.
Oily draw one out. The larrer kinds Of
oesoPus, which are always found in deep
water are caught by men with eowries.
senerAiy OF the Mauritania, but some,
tlires OF the tiger species. An octopus
VIII not rlse 10 large spotted or ugly
eoWry, so the fishermen have To take caro-
that the spots on the back Of the she'll ar.
very small and red, breaking THROUGH n
reddish brown ground. COwries v;tE,
suitable spots, but Objectionable other
wise, are slightly steamed over A IN. a.
sugar cane husks, a process which g;vea
them the desired hue. The fsber5,s,
having arrived at his fishing gronnds
first chews and spits on the water q
mouthful Of candle nut meat. which
renders the water CLASSY and clear no
then drops the shell with hook and line
into the water, and swings it over a
place likely 10 be inhabited by an octo-
pus. The moment an octopus perceive,
a c0wry, it shoots an arm out and cIasns
the shell. If the shell is Of the aitrac-
tive kind, one arm after the other comes
out, and finally the whole body of the
octopus is Withdrawn from the hole and
attaches itself to the cowry, which it
closely hugs, curling itself all around il.
The creature remains very quiet while
being rapidly drawn up Through thu
water. Just as it reaches the surfacg
the fisherman pulls the string so as to
bring its head against the edge Of the
canoe, and it is killed by a blow from a
club which is struck between the eyes.
This must be done rapidly, before the.
animal has time to become alarmed; for
if it lets 90 tho COMFY it becomes a dan
gerous Antagonist, and there is risk of
the fisherman being squeezed to death.
The cutting off Of one or more of its
eight arms does not affect the rest in the
least
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Error in itself is always invisible; its
nature is the absence of light.
Quarrels are only pardonable when We
wrangle with our own viciousness.
He who makes a child happy receives
an encore from the angels in the gallery.
One Of the penalties of lying is the dis
trust Of the liar when he speaks the truth.
The pain of life but sweetens death /;
the hardest labor brings the soundest
sleep.
Circumstances are the rulers of the
weak; they arc but the instruments Of
the wise.
Passions are likened best to floods and
streams; the shallow murmmr, but the
deep are dumb.
True benevolenee is to love all men.
Recompense injury with justice, and kind
ness with kindness.
Reputation is what men and women
think Of us; character is what God and
the angels know Of us.
It will be found that they are the weak
est-minded and the hardest-hearted men
that most love change.
True politeness is perfect ease and free
dom. 1t simply consists in treating
Others just as you love to be treated your
self.
Every man who rises above the com
mon level receives two educations. First,
from his instructors; the second, the
most personal and important, from him
self.
When private virtue is hazarded upon
the peril0us cast Of expediency, the pill
lars Of the republic, however apparent
their stability, are infected with decay at
the very centre.
Among all the many kinds of first love,
that which begins in childish companion
ship is the strongest and most enduring;
when passion comes to unite its forces to
long affection, love is at its springtide.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
A Curious Find.

A curious "fnd' has recently been
made at Athens, and that is the discovery
of staircase" in the Acropolis, says a
writer in ChGmJerSs Journal. Twenty
two steps have been uncovered within the
walls Of the celebrated fortress, and it is
supposed that the continuation of this
staircase was cut down to the rock itself
of the citadel. 1t was thought that these
steps were those by which the enemy as
cended during the Persian siege; but, on
further examination, they are found to be
of later date. With the exception of a
few decorative lions heads and such like,
no sculptures or inscriptions were found
on or around the stairs.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13

In an article on "Fasters and Fasting
in the Cosmopolitan, Henry Howard says
As to animals, Chossat reckons from fif-
teen to eighteen days as the average
period during which they are able to re
sist inanition. The extreme limits Of
endurance, however, are very variable, fat
animals and cold blooded animals resist
ing much longer time than the Others.
Take as examples of the former, creatures
thatbibernate, such as the bear, marmot,
etcYlnd of the latter, tortoises and frogs
As every body knows, bear or prairie
don viii remain several months without
food; a tortoise encased in plaster of Paris
will retire from its enforced dOmicile
after three months in fairly good con-
dition.
Thus the alternating animal, the re-
flex sense of hunger being latent, feeds
upon itself; and, as it has sufficient fat
slowed up to nourish it until the
conclusion of its winters sleep,
it does not succumb. Man, in GER
tain diseased conditions of the ncr-
vous system, is enabled to suppress the
sensation of hunger, and to live by auto
nutrition, or feeding on ones self, and
also by sort of Information with or
without the element of dormancy. All
specialists on diseases of the nervous sys-
TEN have under observation historical or
insane patients that remain weeks and
months without food, and yet maintain
a tolerably good physical condition.
Again, influences purely physical, such
as powerful moral emotions, without any
diseased condition existing in the indi-
vidual subjected 10 them, may also les
sen the denutrition that results from de
privation of food. In this condition,
Henri de Parville cites the experiment of
an alchemist named Duchanteau, who i'm
agined that by depriving himself of nour-
ishment for forty days, and drinking his
own urine, he could produce the philoso-
piers stone. Duchanteau supported this
regimen during twenty-six days, and
didn't diei
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
Coast Defenees

We sat within the sitting-room
And listened to the clock.
IL was as quiet as tomb
l heard my heart knock, knock.
For, ali, loved that pretty maid
And yet dared not speak;
And so | sat there sore afraid
Abashed, and shy, and meek.
s2t presently, she looked so sweet,
l swore an inward oath,
I'd ask kiss-though sure defeat
Made me exceeding loath.
With sudden move | strove TO clasp
Her trim and dainty waist
But swift she lodged my eager grasp,
Her lips couldn't taste.
With her white hands she held me of
These are. - she smiling said,
My coast defences-do not scoff -
She tossed her dainty head.
And as her fair cheeks swiftly warmed,
She cried with modest air:
They're weak. perhaps, and might b
stormed. -
stormed them then and there
--ClersiaRd Saa'
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
A welI-Earned Title.

''How are you, Judgeln said a CONNER
cial traveller cheerily to an old resident in
Texas town.
Good day, sir" returned the gentle
man addressed.
''By the way, Judge, did you ever have
any of the amusing experiences that are
unusually supposed to be incident to the
life of jurist!''
mo, l can't say l ever did. Yer see,
l never he'd anything much to do with the
courts.n
''But everybody calls you 'JudgeP"
eyes, that's fact lend l reckon
I've got right to the title"
Flows that"
why, yer see, I'm gennerly 'lowd ter
be the best jedg o. HOSES in this intire
county. Merchant Trareler.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
Not a Poor Mans Paradise.

California is not poor mans country
and nowhere is this more evident, SAYS ]
p Burke in the St Louis GloJeDemOcrat,
than in the rural and mountain districts
True, it is cheaper TO live there than in
the East, but it is harder to make money.
Capital is centralized, and labor is so fear
fully cheap that poor man has no chance
to make expenses. The men who are
wealthy have enormous amounts, and
most of them do not know how TO spend
it. | was recently up in Shasta County,
and would hear of local magnates with
verv common names, and be told: "Oh,
Tubbs he's worth $40, 900, 600, but he
never leaves the county. All he does IS
TO work in his garden. He was once
laborer, and is close, but his sons spend
the money! If heard such expressions
once | heard them dozen times. The
pioneers are nearly all wealthy. Trans
portatiOn is bad through the northern
part of the State on account Of the almost
impossible condition of the roads. If
you want TO travel a certain distance you
are generally obliged to hire team, and
that amounts to almost the same as buy
ing it. had to hire team to 90 up into
the country, and kept it thirty days The
owner charged me $500 was forced TO
pay it, for justice is very sudden in the
mountains and I'd have been clapped in
Jail in jifTy had l called for COM
promise This was at Calistoga Re
turning thence to San Francisco by rail
l discovered that in the State or local
travel the railroads have three classes of
coaches. with dress as distinction. l
was rather roughly clad after my noun
tain trip, and approaching the ticket
sellers window laid down $50 gold
piece. First, second or third classi''
was asked, and replied that usually
travelled first class. He surveyed me and
then remarked that I'd have to go second
class or not at all. 1t did me no good to
object, either. | found first class to
mean elegant coaches where well-dressed
people only were allowed, second class
for men of ordinary or rough dress. and
third class for Cinnamon and negroes.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
,-..as.,AEt Made a Direrence.

sson-what an extremely
Mrs. Higgins is. 1t is
- #or any one to impose any
limo pretensesv-s--irrr;-a Irr the hints 1
have got from her have been of great
value to me. See how she exposed those
Simpkinses and Wilkinses.
Mrs. Jones-Yes, and if you could
have heard what she said about you, yes
terday-
Mrs Robinson-About MEl
Mrs. Jones-About you.
Mrs. Robinson-Well, l neverl The
idea of her making me subject of con-
yersation. She is nothing but tattler
anyway. I won't believe another word
she says.-Iid-Bits
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13

In his earlier years the late Professor
F L. Youmans was very fond OF rare
roast beef but on one occasion Professor
Acassiz told him that trichin9 were a5
i;e5Ie 10 be found in beef as in pork, and
, ,i, the only way to avoid the risk OF
s s.,,i them was TO have ones meat thor
onebIy cooked. Always afterward Pro-
Seesor Youmans insisted upon having ms
beef well done n-HsrPsr'' Weekly.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
A Personal Matter.

Sought we TO annex Canadal" in
quired a Detroiter of stranger in one
Of our hotels yesterday.
mo, l hardly think we should Still
my opposition to it may be personal
matter
"You are not interested in property
there, are youln
swell, no. But you see l have son
who used to be Cashier of bank in
Ohio, and, and"
'.Ah, yes, certainly. OF course, under
the circumstances you would be rather
rather prejudiced. Good-day. "-Detroit
Free Pres.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
EGET OF Fun.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
IL Succeeded-A Personal Matter
1t Made a Difference-A Well
Earned Title-The Col
oneI's Strategy, Etc.

Augustus, y said Maud, who, as he
had been calling on her for some time,
thought she would give him hint, 81
should like to be an actress
can actressl" repeated Augustus in
establishment. ''What on earth do you
want to be an actress for7n
Because then might be engaged: "
She now wears a solitaire. York
Sun
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13

''Do the clothes make the man3n an ex =
change anxiously asks. 1t is somewhat
hard question to answer, but we should
say IL he case Of a tailor, for instance,
that it. he man who makes the clothes.
-Bssm wir,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
The Gem Alphabet.

In answerto an inquiry about the gem
alnhabet" the Brooklyn Eagle says: The
Readers Handbook" compiled by Brew
or gives two such lists as are asked for
Inv another" one transparent and the
s;hor onanue They are as follows.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-07
PREDICTED APPOINTMENTS.

1t is expected that NJ. Goolet will be
Prime Minister in the new Cabinet,
ard that NJ. Flpurens will retain the
portfulioof Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Chambers adjourned until Satur-
day.
A subscription has been started to
raise funds for the purpose of erecting
monument to the great Carnot,
grandfather OF the new President.
The extremists still continue to OPP
po.e tbs election OF General Saussier
as Governor.
FEELING IN RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, December Gle
Journal de st. Petersburg congratulates
France upon the election of NJ. Sadi
Garnot as President, bnt condemns
the mob of orators for using Russia s
name for political purposes.